Silent Hill/Kingdom Hearts

[nekokoban]

qara_isuke is totally my hero, because she sent me video links for the Silent Hill games, even if last night after I turned off my computer and all the lights, I laid on my back and stared at the ceiling and thought, "they are going to EAT ME and tomorrow my housemates will just find some bloodstained clothes (and possibly a single bone) in my bed."

Then I zonked out and obviously that didn't happen, hello everyone!

But she is obvious proof that I'm not the only person who heartmarks Silent Hill and Kingdom Hearts in a but-you-COULD-mix-them! way, or at least she's willing to indulge me as I alternately go :D XO D: at her.

She also gave a fantastically brilliant idea based mostly on the mythos of Silent Hill 2 -- i.e., if the monsters are all simply a reflection of your own guilt and darkness, then Kairi will see nothing except the occasional dark shadow (from her connection with Namine), Riku would, at some point, have close encounters of the stabbydeath kind with Pyramid Head, but Sora, who is now fully integrated with Roxas, such as memories and thoughts cross over and mingle ...

Sora would see members of the Organization in the monsters. 8D Like the Victims in Silent Hill 4, distorted enough to be grotesque (I have all sorts of horrific images to keep me awake at night♥) but still recognizable. Theoeretically, we have thus far decided on a few. Which are kind of gross, but I suppose that's the way of horror?

1. Demyx would certainly be a play off his water element -- there's at least one drowned Victim that wanders in SH4, and Demyx would be akin to that; he'd have half his face swollen just so, like a dead body does when it bloats, and maybe he could sing, too.

... I know there's a Victim in SH4 who sings a nice little song for you as he attempts to kill you. It could be like that! He sings at you before he takes his sitar -- which would be like him, waterlogged and rotted and unable to make a sound, but still one solid piece -- and BEATS YOU TO DEATH♥

2. Xigbar would be sort of like Valtiel (the Yellow God), spending most of his time crawling along the walls, twitching violently and not quite interfering directly with the sequences -- just sort of. There. Watching.

Ironically, Valtiel's position of prominence would be more suitable for Xemnas, but Xemnas is totally like Dahlia Gilsepsie, the mad leader who is convinced in the rightness of this chosen path and people, to the point where sacrificing innocents doesn't matter because they believe they are saving the greater whole.

--well, unless one assumes that Valtiel is working in the interests of the cult, then it works!

3. Xaldin = Pendulums (ala SH3). Massive wheels of long sharp spears that flay the flesh from you before you can get out your gun.

P.S. PENDULUMS SUCK A LOT because you hear this whirring grinding noise and suddenly, you're bleeding a lot! Kind of like my experience with Xaldin, only I think this time there's no King Mickey to save the player.

4. Marluxia would be something more like a creature from Resident Evil -- half his face mottled in what looks like scars until you get too close (but you don't WANT to get too close D:) and you realize that actually, they're moving and actually, they're little vines constantly writhing under his skin -- and oh, then, you're dead because they came to say hello to you. :D

Also, Larxene = Hell Nurse. Y/N?

Axel would be like Maria, too, a not-quite-himself construct basically sent as both temptation and punishment for the main PC, for his neglect and his part in the original's death.

Of course, this follows the course that Axel = exotic dancer? And I sort of cry a lot.

I wonder if one could replace the other smaller actual monsters (not ghosts, like the Victims) with regular Nobodies/Heartless. I mean, thwack a Dusk and it falls to the ground and writhes away to try and get behind you to hit you; shoot a Lying Body and it falls as well, then slithers up and tries to bite your ankles off with rotted teeth.

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This will be awesome practice for the survival horror game beastiary-in-progress, too. :D

(And LJ! You're letting me see icon keywords again! I ♥ you!)